Bed adhesion vs. Bad adhesion

A wonderful #BecauseIcan project... Building An Analog Meter Watch | Hackaday share.google/68yHqn8L3Kc7... #RaspberryPiPico #PCB

Mood Whisperer is finally in its case (yes, it is a flag case) but the main functionality of displaying motivational and demotivational quotes is not working because of the front glass. The glass disrupts VL53L0X ToF sensor. I was suspecting that it may interfere but it completely broke it.

OMG! I didn't think that it is si big! What a beauty from eBay!

The Covid test at CVS was $25—friggin' expensive! It came out negative, which felt like a waste of money.

I see you and I raise you on the entire album!

Shorteeeeeeeeee. The best #ZXspectrum Sinclair never made.

Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator

The estates of the J*y D*visi*n members can be very litigious, as I've learned previously, so for this project I used my favorite legally-distinct sound-alike by @seeming.bsky.social Pls forgive my soldering, I had two long island iced teas before recording this, then a third before editing it

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

1/3 Found a cool "toy" in Claude: the "Grill me" skill. Using Claude Code /grill-me triggers an interactive session designed to dig into your actual intentions and surface the non-obvious stuff. It works surprisingly well.

Now it finally makes a bit more sense! youtube.com/watch?v=sXgZ...

There is nothing more satisfying than a photo of an oscilloscope in the morning!

oh no

Yantar. When we adopted him a year ago he was completely wild because of his teeth surgery and moving to a new home. Plenty patience and he turned to be the most cuddling terrorist in the world.

Once the weather gets warmer, I'll be unstoppable. Unless it gets too warm. Then I'll be stoppable again.

I have this old VFD Sony display on a PCB with a controller. The board has a ribbon connector so... easy peasy?

How often does a project meant to simplify life just spawn another? My Soyabell wasn’t reliably detecting soy-maker end-of-cycle beeps, so now I need to sniff the data. 🧵

Opening in Sayreville, NJ pizzeria! Finally, a role where contradicting and disagreeing with everything the customer says is literally the title.

A 1979 portable TV featured in Blade Runner was reborn as a Raspberry Pi-powered cyberdeck for modern computing.

JVC Videosphere // CRT television (Japan, 1970) vizreef.tumblr.com/post/8118633...

So several years before the term Internet was coined for a network of interconnected computer networks in the mid 70s. Several years earlier a small company in Beckenham Kent sold cheapo Hong Kong made pocket radios. They called themselves Internet. Here is one I bought today with box.

Magnifying lid on with internal sound. Not a lot to squish inside, although it's pretty crammed in there already. Maybe get away with fixed gain and bias if I can find a good setting that works with most stuff. And replace the earphone with an AV in.

Uber just notified me that the prices of rides to my airport are the lowest in month. I guess, I will go to the airport today then.

I also engage sometimes in pointless excercises 🤭

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware share.google/pkn5SZrvWqUp...

Yes, I’m a 'soy-boy' - I make soy milk every week for my yogurt. My milk maker beeps so faintly at the end of its cycle that I frequently forget it's done. ​Enter the Soy Milk Ready SMS Notifier: an ESP32-based listener that makes sure I never miss a batch. #esp32 #vegan

In dry winter air everything prints perfectly on my 3d printer. So, was the humidity the source of all the troubles?

Flashback to the summer of 2018. On the chain of a hanging flower basket sits the only insect capable of turning its head. ​It is looking at me.

I feel like Odysseus hearing the enchanting songs of the Sirens. Tie me to the mast now!

The text reader pronounces ESP32 as 'Thirty-two Spanish Pesetas.' 🙄 I noticed this 6 months ago; have they really not fixed it? Is it actually rarer to discuss microcontrollers than old Spanish money?

What was I thinking taking up on assembling this board. 6 caps and 16 resistors soldered. 256 LEDs to go...

Individually addressable LEDs.... so cute! They look like regular LEDs except... they have 4 pins: +5V, GND, Data In, Data Out. 5 and 8 mm LEDs

I used to be a developer. Now, at best, I manage a LLM chat... youtu.be/fyHnGHxGuhI?...

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

Today's thrift store find: Melcor 400 harking back to mid 1970s. It is surprising to see buttons dedicated to square root while many other calculators did not have such functionality. The interesting part is that the calculator goes into a 'power saving' mode by blanking display except one segment.

Perlin noise on custom 14-segment display matrix #maker #arduino #electronics

Shiura saved a broken 1973 Casio calculator by turning its retro VFD screen into a Wi-Fi-connected clock using an ESP32.

While I understand why I should provie Alt Text to images, it is a Royal Pain in Butt. Luckily Gemini can help with this!

Random picture from 2014. More than 10 years ago already?

Cool wire spools https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/print-your-own-standardized-wire-spool-storage/

This is nuts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUH...

'Raspberry Pip' in my Electronics feed 😁

Started a new batch of vegan cashew roquefort. This time mushroom flavored. Here is what is expected in couple of weeks...

My wife said "poor baby...".